Sniblet Posted January 5, 2023 Posted January 5, 2023 (edited) BYOND Key: Sniblet Character Names: Iphigenia Konstantinou - Karen Stahl - Natascha Marikova - Anahi Avalona - Lilija Larsdottir - Ayla Shanae - Kalini Shanae - Lyric Valana Species you are applying to play: Vaurca What color do you plan on making your first alien character: (RGB 71, 0, 31) Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Most of them! I haven’t looked at settlements and I’ve heavily glossed the history page, but I’ve gone over the broods and biology and main page. So that should be everything an average newborn Vaurca would know. :shrug: Why do you wish to play this specific race: Antag gimmicks firstly, because the Lii’dra are more interesting than Einstein For The 5th Time Today, and Einstein For The 5th Time Today But Now With A C’thur Attached is more interesting than just the humans and two shells. But I also like my weird and robotic characters (psychologically robotic, not necessarily made of steel), and a Viax is basically that without the moaning about having your access nerfed to the ground. An Akaix is further from that, but also lets me play roles I haven’t before, and is still weird enough to be entertaining. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Similar to a synthetic, you are designed. Even if you’re born with “free” will, you were created by an intelligent hand with an intelligible goal, and deviating from this purpose is both close to impossible and invalidates the reason for your continued existence. As a Bound, your commitment to your work in the material world is absolute. Failure means you are recycled, which isn't effective because it's scary so much as because there are no living failures. As an Unbound, your absolute commitment is mainly just to the Hive, but you're still made for something. Character Name: Ka’Akaix’Suth Zo’ra Please provide a short backstory for this character: Today is Suth’s first birthday! Or maybe that was earlier this week. There isn’t really any unique backstory to it, because it was born for its work on the Horizon and hasn’t done anything else outside the normal birthing and raising process. Suth belongs to Scay’s brood, and its primary purpose is that of just another information collector. The SCCV Horizon, going where no man has gone before, could meet lots of new exciting lifeforms, genetic catastrophes, or cool new forms of bioweaponry to pull apart and examine, but the regular sophonts going around are, well, also worth studying. As an investigator only dissects people for legal reasons and a scientist isn’t supposed to dissect people, Suth was set up to be an NT surgeon here. For better or worse, that means it's mostly just doing well-intentioned medicine... but there are opportunities still. *enables traitor* What do you like about this character? I’m interested by the idea of a surgeon that prefers to work with the lights off and windows tinted. Pleazzze turn off your flazzzlight, the mazzzter izzz at work. Pleazzze do not demote me. No, thizzz izzz juzzzt zzzo I can zzzee. I have only a rough idea what its personality would look like at the moment besides the usual “funny bug guy.” I imagine it’ll be doing a lot of *eyebrow stuff like asking for blood samples just to keep for later and being a truly merciless destroyer of cubespawn and protopeople. It might also like to uncomfortably dissect other people’s psychology, like “oh, I zzzee I muzzzt have zzztimulated an amygdala hijack with that comment.” How would you rate your role-playing ability? Always learning. I learned how not to self-insert years ago, and nowadays my main focus is instigating interactions and getting people immersed with my characters. Lyric has helped a little with teaching me to emote more. Suth can be my first real weirdo here. *me gazes concerningly at the patient’s open chest cavity! Notes: I’ve been highlighting its mad scientist side, but obviously Suth has enough self-control to be employable, or it wouldn’t be employed. Intruzzzive thoughtzzz are in fashion these days, I think. The Vaurca quote I can't get off my mind: "If you like my work pleazzze give k'oizzz, I am not paid." Edited January 10, 2023 by Desven Pleazzze do not demote me.
La Villa Strangiato Posted January 5, 2023 Posted January 5, 2023 I have nothing but good things to say about Sniblet's characters and I've had a ton of fun interactions with them. I think they have really cool and diverse concepts and they would be a great bug, hyezzzzzz. +1
eddymakaveli Posted January 8, 2023 Posted January 8, 2023 Sniblet's characters are all very distinct and have well thought out concepts with a variety of quirks that are fun to interact with. An easy +1 as I believe they'd add a lot as a Vaurca.
RustingWithYou Posted January 8, 2023 Posted January 8, 2023 I played with Sniblet doing a Lii'dra gimmick, with them playing as a black k'ois zombie. They seemed to do well with the lore of the hive and the species on short notice, and I feel like they'd make a good Vaurca player. +1 from me.
Desven Posted January 9, 2023 Posted January 9, 2023 Hi. I have some questions. What are Suth's views on other Hives? What does Suth think of the Horizon? Does Suth have any interests?
Sniblet Posted January 9, 2023 Author Posted January 9, 2023 Since it achieved sentience about 6 months ago, and has spent all that time until very recently either in the tunnels of the Hidden Queen’s hive or in her VRscapes, Suth hasn’t had the chance to develop much of a nuanced political perspective. It has what it grew up with: a healthy distrust of the C’thur, a healthy instant fight-or-flight terror of the Lii’dra, and a sort of smiling disappointment in the K’lax for abandoning the Bezzzt Hive. The Horizon is THE PLACE TO BE. Obviously there’s nowhere better in the entire galaxy for it to spend its time, or it wouldn’t be assigned there! Horizon is where it’ll do all its science and learn all its… thingzzz! Again, six months of sentience, so there’s not much nuance to Suth’s hobbies. It’s interested mostly in its assignment and a few things separated by just one degree from it. Biology, anatomy - uncomfortable psychoanalysis, maybe structural design. It’s a curious bug and will directly ask many living things to explain how they work.
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